The Oldest Member's reverence for golf does not cramp his style in telling some of the funniest, tallest and most joyful stories in the whole Wodehouse canon. In this splendid omnibus, introduced by Wodehouse himself, love and the links are inextricably intertwined, in this bumper collection of hilarious short stories that show the course of true love is racing down the middle of the fairway.

Courtes histoires de green

George Uffenham, the eccentric sixth Viscount of Uffenham, has sold most of his family fortune to buy jewelry he then hides in a secret place. Victim of a car accident, he loses his memory and can no longer remember where he hid the jewels. This forces him to leave the family pile and to return there, posing as a butler, to search for the lost gems.

Valeurs en coffre

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, is back “to spread sweetness and light” wherever he goes. At the request of Lord Emsworth, Uncle Fred journeys to Blandings Castle to steal the Empress of Blandings before the ill-tempered, egg-throwing Duke of Dunstable can lay claim to her. Disguised as the eminent nerve specialist Sir Roderick Glossop, and with his distressed nephew Pongo in tow, Uncle Fred must not only steal a pig but also reunite a young couple and diagnose various members of the upper class with imaginary mental illnesses, all before his domineering wife realizes he’s escaped their country estate.

Bravo Oncle Fred !

At French seaside Château Blissac, J. Wellington Gedge from California wants to go home. His larger richer wife wants him to be a Paris Ambassador, blackmails Senator Opal, publicly dry, with a letter to his bootlegger in her safe. Jewels attract criminals tough 'Soup' Slattery and 'Oily' Carlisle, who mourn female partners here unknown. Amid confusion of assumed identities and one real undercover detective, 'Packy' Patrick Franklyn, rich ex-Yale footballer, wants Jane Opal to be happy. Jane's fiancé poor writer 'Egg' Blair Eggleston is touted by Packy's fiancée culture-lofty Lady Beatrice Bracken. Rakish 'Veek' Vicomte de Blissac returns for holiday festival where men drink, fight, and find love - or at least reward from safe.

Sous pression

A Jeeves and Wooster collection An outstanding collection of Jeeves stories, every one a winner, in which Jeeves endeavours to give satisfaction: By saving a grumpy cabinet minister from being marooned and attacked by a swan - in the process saving Bertie Wooster from his impending doom...By rescuing Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop from the soup (twice each)...By arranging rather too many performances of the song 'Sonny Boy' to a not very appreciative audience...And by a variety of other sparkling stratagems that should reduce you to helpless laughter. This early collection shows P.G.Wodehouse at the top of his game, writing with sublime wit and delicacy of plotting.

VERY GOOD, JEEVES

Quand Jeeves part en vacances, Bertie, le narrateur, et " Hareng Saur ", son ami, connaissent les pires difficultés ! Pourtant, un séjour chez une vénérable ancêtre, la tante Dahlia de Brinkley Court, semblait devoir remédier à cette terrible absence, mais, fiançailles rompues, menace de procès en diffamation, perte de travail, tout accable les jeunes gens. Ajoutez à ces " légers ennuis ", selon Jeeves, la présence d'un psychiatre déguisé en maître d'hôtel, un faux vol, un imbroglio de prénoms de prétendants américains à la main de la fille du redoutable directeur d'école préparatoire... Voilà un Jeeves qui ne décevra pas les admirateurs de Wodehouse !

Jeeves dans la coulisse (Jeeves, #12)

A Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus 'Jeeves knows his place, and it is between the covers of a book.'  This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal paperweight. As he wrote:
'I find it curious, now that I have written so much about him, to recall how softly and undramatically Jeeves first entered my little world. Characteristically, he did not thrust himself forward. On that occasion, he spoke just two lines.
The first was:
"Mrs Gregson to see you, sir." The second:
"Very good, sir, which suit will you wear?"  It was only some time later that the man's qualities dawned upon me. I still blush to think of the off-hand way I treated him at our first encounter...'.

This omnibus contains Carry On, Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves and the short stories 'Jeeves Makes an Omelette' and 'Jeeves and the Greasy Bird'.

THE WORLD OF JEEVES

Le club des Celibataires anonymes est, comme son nom l'indique, destine a empecher ses membres de se marier a tort et a travers. Ephraim Trout, homme de loi americain, est un membre actif de cette organisation. Il se sent oblige de suivre son client, Ivor Llewellyn, a Londres pour l'aider de ses conseils en une dangereuse occurrence (il a rencontre une jeune actrice !). Il tente egalement, par tous les moyens, de contrecarrer les projets matrimoniaux de Joseph Pickering, jeune auteur dramatique dont la derniere comedie a fait un four noir et qui vient de rencontrer Sally a laquelle une vieille dame richissime a legue sa fortune a condition qu'elle s'abstienne de fumer pendant deux ans.

Célibataires anonymes

Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extracted high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of the game, drawn from personal experience? Wodehouse's brilliant but human brand of humor is perfectly suited to these stories of love, rivalry, revenge, and fulfillment on the links. While the Oldest Member sits inside the clubhouse quoting Marcus Aurelius on patience and wisdom, outside on the green the strongest human passions burn. All human life is here, from Sandy McHoots, the cocky professional, to shy Ramsden Waters, whose only consolation is golf. Even golf-haters will not be able to resists stories which perfectly combine physical farce and verbal with a gallery of unforgettable characters.

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